Reading and Playing

I started this blog to journey my son's progress. Although looking back now, I think it was a concrete place to put my grief. To capture it in writing and to show the slow painstaking processes of autism. As I scanned back through today, I realized I had not desperately need to blog lately because he has began to be just my little boy. The autism is a part of him now.. just as his incredible smile. I do not measure every movement under a microscope, which in a way allows us all to play and live more freely.

Christian can read now. We had a box of 100 sight words and he could tell you about 90 of them. He has an intense fascinatoin for signing and loves Signing times. He is able to let you know his preferences and is beginning to have more spontaneous imaginative play.

He still has difficutly playing with peers and while he can say hello and loves to greet them, he has a hard time with sustained interactive play. Also, he is still very scripted and needs us to sometimes think for him through interactions. As we move forward, these are some of the areas that we are focusing most clearly on to improve.